Projects
Variability of Rainfall and River Flow in the Nile Basin KU Leuven
Rainfall variability engenders changes in the frequency and severity of water-related disasters. In the Nile basin, rainfall-based disasters e.g. landslides, flooding and dry conditions are common. This research aimed at providing a platform for insights on variability of historical rainfall and flow in the River Nile basin. Spatio-temporal variability of both rainfall volumes and extreme events across the study area was analyzed in a ...
Reconstructing Nile tilapia stocking in Africa: parasites, nextgeneration-sequencing and museum collections Hasselt University
Tracing parasite transfer between invasive Nile tilapia and native cichlids in Central Africa after anthropogenic introductions Hasselt University
biodiversity Hasselt University
Congo basin integrated monitoring for forest carbon mitigation and biodiversity (COBIMFO). Ghent University
The relationship between C stock, fluxes and biodiversity in the tropical rainforest of the Congo Basin is investigated. Therefore, intensive monitoring of these variables will be performed in pristine and intervened dense tropical forests in Yangambi, along a forest productivity gradient.
The project is a partnership between UGent, Royal Museum for Central Africa, ULB, UCL, National Botanic Garden of Belgium, Royal Belgian ...
Understanding responses and resilience of central Congo basin forests to a changing environment - FORMONCO II in DR Congo Ghent University
AMAZALERT Ghent University
The AMAZALERT project will: (1) identify ecosystem services of the AMAZON basin forests, (2) integrate modelling of the interactions between societal and natural contributors to land use, (3) improve modeling and undersranding of the complex interactions between natural systems and anthropogenic impacts, and (4)develop a tool to warn for immminent, irreversible loss of ecosystem services.
Developing and optimizing stochastic individual-based infectious disease simulation models by parallel multicore computing techniques. University of Antwerp
Biomechanical Evaluation of a Personalized External Aortic Root Support applied in the Ross Procedure KU Leuven
In several cardiac interventions, pulmonary arterial tissue is exposed to systemic conditions. One of these procedures is the Ross procedure, which replaces a diseased aortic valve with the patient’s own pulmonary valve. A common complication hereby is the dilatation of this pulmonary autograft. Still, not all autografts fail and the decisive factor for autograft failure is not known. Several reinforcement strategies have been designed to ...